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SPECIAL AND PERSONAL

Dr. McGynn's fundamental position
that the rent Of land belongs to the COM
munitv. and that if it were paid to the
community instead of being paid as at
present 90 individuals. there would ben2
need of any other taxes. but. on the con-
trarv. q surplus which might DE devoted
TO public improvements, Is, of course,
borrow ed from Henry George Like
Henry George too. DR. McGiynn con-
tents himself with asserting the PROPOSE
ton without adducing any evidence of
facts 90 support it-Aar lorl >nn.
Here is touching romance chat viii
thrill the heart of every bachelor a man
ina Danbury had hen that died in The
maternal duty of setting ON thirteen eggs
lust before Tie chicks were Matched and
he took his rooster and tied him ON the
nest until the family came into the world
and now he says that the rooster is the
prOudcst mother he ever saw.
The Nassar maidens want 90 wear thc
oxford cap and gown-which seems 10
be good idea. as we know how awiully
nice a pretty girl looks in q waterproof
of black carried with artistic coquetry
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been uptufhed and planted in yafns, cocoas.
corn and peas; every thing. growing luxn.
riantly. Sweet potato plants are springing
ND I'M all directions. Not one has .beeH
planted. Fifty or ffty-iye years ago 1t
was a potato patch and general ground;
since that time, as mentioned, IL mas al
ways been under grass"
It must be admitted that the lady readers
of the "Avis" do not receive their fair share
of attention. Seldom do we publish anything
which may be regarded as especially theirs.
To-day, however we venture to depart from
our usual track among political and general
news, and reprint from the Daily 1eteQrGpA
an account of a Royal Drawing Room, the
last of a set of four, held at Buckingham Pa
lace in special honour of the Jubilee year.
It is always a point with us to read through
the pieces chosen for this paper; and we
have not made an exception in the present
instance. Having read the article we have
come to the conclusion that the ladies will be
grati6ed by its publication. We presume
that next to wearing handsome dresses comes
the pleasure of seeing them, and failing at
the pleasure of reading about them. In this
case there is scope for the satisfaction of every
taste. At the one end we have the dress
woven throughout of gold and silver threads,
at the other end the dress of white crepe with
a panel entirely of field daisies or the dress Of
white tulle almost covered with lilies of the
valley. Although we don't quite know what
a "panep is, W feel sure that these dresses,
adorned with such modest yet attractive flow
ers, must have been exceedingly beautiful.
The ladies will doubtless find special interest
in the description of q reception, where the
Sovereign of Britain and Empress of India
was represented by one of our own Processes,
of whose position on such occasions the
telegraph says: Presentations to her Roy
al Highness the Princess of Wales at this
court, are, by the Queens pleasure, consi-
dered as equivalent to presentations to her
Majesty"
, 1887-06-18
TELEGRAMS.
ST. CROIX STATION.

New York, June .14th.-The death is
announced of NJ. Ansellne Polycarpe
Batbic, French juriSc6nsults and
senator
III the House Of Commons, amendments
to the Crimes Bill continue to bo
rejected.
The Manchester ship canal bill was read
q second time, and ordered to be consider
ell in cOmmi, tee of the whole House.
Later advices from Berlin state that the
Kaiser is better. The Crown Prince has
left to attend the Queens jubilee.
Renewed reports are circulated Of tho
fatal character of his throat trouble.
Paris dispatches state that the C%hamber.
of Deputies has elected NJ. Deville it's.
Vice PRECEDENT.
M. Vitry, an Opportunist, has been
elected deputy for the Department of the
Haute Marine.
it is announced that q new cabinet has
been formed in ServiA. !,
The Earl of Aberdeen, the hate Vicer0N
of Ireland, has arrived at San Francisco
and yesterday delivered u strong Home
rule speech.
There has been o collapse lib the coffee
market ic New York, and several prOini-
nent dealers have failed. -.
New York, June 15th.-LOndOn news
states that the Prince of w aleS has started
II yachts in the Jubilee race. So far the
"GeneStN' is leading.
Mr.. Chamberlain, speaking at q UMOiIist
dinner, said the signs of the times favOnrett
the Unionists, and there could be no.
reconciliation with the Liberals until Mr..
Gladstone should drop his present allies
The old re~actionary Toryism he declared
hal met it's death. and the hope for Ii
future lay in carrying Gnb the hartford
programme.
Earl Rosebery, in the course of speech
at "a banquet yesterday, said that he
believed the chances of q Liberal TO union
were not bad.
It is stated that NJ. Ristics, the new
Premier for Seryia, is friendly to
Russia.
En- the Belgian Chamber OF Deputies,
the Bill referring to- the ortification@o tho
Meuse was passed.
The trials at Leipsic of the French
Patriotic leaguers are proceeding, and It is
generally considered that their conviction
is certain.
In the French Chamber Of Deputies, Nj.
Barbe opposed the proposed suspension
of the surtax ON cereals as the present rise
in prices was merely transitory, and the
, 1887-06-18
e'THE AVIS"
Strisiiarsifd 81. Sruix.
Saturday, 18th June, 1887.

We continue, as promised on Wednesday
orr brief notices of some items OF the Colo
Oial (youncil's Proceedings OH Monday.
THE Draft Of Ordinance concerning re-
ports of births in st, CrOix passed the
third discussion, and will presumably soon
hecome Inv. A few formal amendments
nronosed bv Government were passed
without comment. The Draft makes it
compulsory to report all births, within 4S
hours, if the birth takes place IN one OF the
owns and before the following Saturday
if it takes place i'll the country. Inc res
possibility rests mainly Oh the parents
but also, in the case of an lllesitlmate chiiu'
nm uthe Derson from whom the mother has
rented n dwelling or. with whom she is
living in the house," and the report in the
towns is to be made to the Police direct. In
the country the persOnsimmediately respOn'
sihIe. as above, are to report within "A lou
TO the estate owner, manager or overseer,
who is bound TO report to the Police once
of the District on the following Saturday.
Blank forms are to be provided by the
Covernment for filing i'll date of births,
sax of child. names of parents, or, III case
of Am illegitimate child, the name OF the
mother. &c. Fines for neglect range from
so cents to $5, according to circumstances.
1.-THE further Instructions as to the manner
in which the Police Office Registers OF
Births are to be kept are to be given ny
the Government.
The complementary measure to the
above. namely the Draft of Ordinance for
Inspection of Corpses, was brought on
for End discussion at the same meeting;
but the discussion was postponed, on the
ground that the new members were not
sufficiently acquainted with the Draft, par
ticularly that some of them had not aver
seen the amendments proposed by the Com
mittee. The proposal to postpone was car
ried without difficulty.
In the same meeting Messrs. w. II:
Heyliger and D. Jameson were reelected
as members of the Commission to report TO
Government on the prices of produce, for
guidance in fixing the export tariff;
Messps. Lemming and Wsssard' were cleo
ted "a a Committe0tO Oamine the accounts
Of the Municipality for 1855.
we And in the st. Thom@ Tidende OF
the 18th inst an article quoted from the
Neao York Herald and headed craving
Stones al arguments in Canada" which
wen illustrates the system of mis-repfesen-
tation by which the Home Rule agltators
endeavOur to prop up their falling cause.
TfMr. O,Rrien had succeeded IN stlrrlng;n up
riots against Lord L~ansdowne, and this
wan his purpose, for on leaving Cork on
May LIST he told his auslience that 'she. ieit
certain. that when . true statement OF tne
, 1887-06-18

case was. laid before Che liberty. loving PEG.
Pile in CANDIDA they would not tolerate such
u man as Lord Lansdowne as their Govern
or General, if he had succeeded, we say, hlS
party and friends would have described
the result as the natural ortcome of LORD
Lansdowne's w~ickedness, but as 1t mas
turned ont the other way; and the s'hDerty
loving people of Canada have protested
against Mr.. iO'Brien's attempt, the Herald
finds that the Tory party in London are at
tho bottom of his failure. Then, to
shew what q good cause OBrien has, the
Herald gives The. following account of it:
4NThe story told is a simple but a sorrow
full, one. Five. hundred tenants, it is charg-
ed, have been or are to be served with
writs of eviction. Men, women n chill
dren, the aged and decrepit, the young
and the helpless, the sick and the strong,
a whole village, are to be thrown out ON
the highway. Their little holdings were
leased by their fathers and grandfathers.
They are willing to pay the rental which
the Gro wn has pronounced equitable and
just. They simply resist the grinding hand
which would take all they have and then
demand more. They plead for their homes,
humble as they are, and the privilege OF
living aud dying where their forefathers
lived and died, and they readily promise
everything except to take the mOrsel
out Of their children's mouths to satisfy the
agents avarice. But NO. Their houses
are IT, be torn down over their heads if
they hesitate to go. Sherifs and a detail
of sOldiery are to drive them into the street
and into beggary and starvation. They
plead for their rights as tenants through
several generations, but the rich man snaps
his fingers at their poverty and their entrea-
ties, takes the doors from their hinges and
removes the windows, and bids them go to
the w%0rkhouse or the cemetery"
This statement is foolish as we'll a. false.
Lord LsnSdOwne, like any other Irish land
lord, mNStaccept, hedare not refuse, Or atany
rate could not take subsequent legal pro-
ceedings if he did refuse, the judicial rent,
which is, OF course, what the Herald means
by the "rental which the Crown has pro
nounced equitable and JUST. AS a matter
of fact he, not only has not refused it, but i'll
every case of eviction has offered to take
half IL years rent only, in full of all claims,
rather than evict. The quarrel between
him and his tenants is this, that after
getting their rents fixed by the courts,
they have, by the advice of the National
League, endeavOured to exact further re-
auctions, the amount of which they have
claimed the right to fix for themselves. 1t
is a consolation to know hat such mis-
representations as that which we nave point.
cd out, although they may miSlead q few
people here aud there, cannot stop the APP
prOach of the time when the National League
will get Its deserts.
Some time ago we re Drinted in the Avis
, 1887-06-18
Passengers Arrived.

!. OnIkA94 A@Nt 4&S1s E
1G June,-Per Vigilantfrom St Thomas,
Mrs. Josephine Robinson, MISS a.
Th5nnesen, Rosamond Bryan, Marie
Christian and 2 children.
F-REDERIKsTED.
I5 June.-Per Atlantic from st. Thomas,
Alex. Bastian. Jos. Richard, Miss An
toanette Gid, T.. Tellesfort, Mr.. j. w; T..
Carty, Mary Richard, f. Williams, A. Viii
liams, s.. McEvoy, Miss L. Richardson.
Passengers Left.
CHRrSTIANSTED.
17th June.-Per Vigilant for st. Thomas,
-Gregoria Anduse, !. w. Il. Clearly, MRS.
j. Lang, Helene Mackin, s. Alice BaIfour'
FREDERIKsTED.
16 June,-Per Atlantic for st. Thomas,
Mr.. Danielsen, l.. TellesfOrt, Charles
David and wife, Mary Louisa Bj0rn, NJ, l..
Ramirez.
, 1887-06-18

E.tTtEt -Zt --
Some time ago we reprinted in the Avls
an article from the European Mail on
u~tilising the sweet potato for the prOduc-
tion of a -four to be used by European dis.
tillers. Mr.. Edward NJ. Earle of Jamaica
writes to the Cleaner, under date of 14th
May, stating that as he resides i'll -
neighb0HrhOod noted for the quantity and
quality of the sweet potatoes grown there,
he had prepared last christmas samples
of -four from twO'Of the sweetest varieties
of sweet potatoes grown i'll those parts,
and SEM them to Mr.. Morris at Kew Gar
dens. That gentleman had the samples
analysed and, valued by experts, who pro-
nOunced the fOur worth 5 Shillings for liz
lbs. Mr.. Earle says, that by careful weigh
ing he found that it took 100 lbs. potatoes
to make 80 lbs. of the -four. Hence it
would require 373 lbs. of potatoes to a
112 lbs of -four, and for this weight OF
potatoes the grower would get $l.20, AFTER
he had converted them into hOur and paid
freight and other charges. Mr.. Earle gave
from 3sgto IS. Der 100 lbs, for the roots,
and it is to be hoped for his sake that the
purchase was a small one. He says: "If
the tubers were systematically cultivated
on estates or elsewhere ON good ground,
thpymigltb be produced for cd. to Is. per lOO
lbs. and Ia profit might be realised uI'On
the -four even in the English market and
at tile value (probable) suggested by MT.
Burgoyne's distiller." The writer concludes
an interesting letter with a singular fact
about the seed of the sweet potato planti
he says:
.sThe oweet potato bears q hsck-browD
seed about the size of q No. 4 shot. This
seed Wilt remain in the earth for an indie,
finite number of years, and when, the sor
is upturneil, l%germinate and grow AT the
tima,of writiag therei is on this property
plot of land--just II acres-thath has oeen
under grass for fifty years. 1t has lately
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1887-01-08
GEN. LOGAN'S ILLNESS.

The n. Y. Medical Record saws:
"The case of the late Gen. Logan ap-
pears to be II OF those rare ones in
which acute rheumatism causes a
rapid and fatal issue. On Dec, u,
DR.. j. H Baxter of Washington, ID.
c., was called to see him, and found
him suffering from cue rheumatism,
involving the right wrist. He improv-
ed uGtil the 18th. when he had Il re.
lapse; the hips, ankle, feet, anu both
wrists became Involved. Brain symp
toms Glac appeared at this time.
Though there was some temporary
improvement III the 2Ist and 22d, the
symptoms on the whole became grad
uaiiy more severe, the intervals of full
consciousness GhGrter, until early on
the morning of Dec. 26, when he be-
game comatose. He died twelve hours
later,
THE cerebral symptoms were those
of congestion of the brain.
"Acute rheumatism is so rarely q
cause OF death that some complication
ls expected, and almost always found
in fatal cases. When death does occur
it is, as a rule, with cerebral symp
toms, as wae the case with Senator
Logan. Such symptoms are most liabl,
tO develop in persons whose narVGu
system has been subjected to tremen
dOus strains, or to the toxic effects o
narcotics and stimulants.
"No doubt the ~exhausting politica
, and literary labors of the deceased hat
, made it possible for the rheumatic
. poison to attack and paralyze his ner
vons centers, thus bringing to a fata
: issue a disease that in ninety-seven pc
t cent. of cases is perfectly free iron
danger to life"
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1887-01-08
PREPARING FOB WAR.

PARIS, Dec. 30.-Diplomats consider
the statement made by the government
organs yesterday that Gen. Boulange
had not, as reported, reduced his sup
Elemental military estimates to $lO,-
900 900, coupled with the Journal Of
fciel's list of his re-sppointments of
the generals in command of the French
fortresses, another evidence that wal
is not remote. Much curiosity il ex-
pressed as to what Germany will think
OF Gen. Boulanger's decree making
these appointments and bestowing up.
on Gen. Thibaudin, command Of the
Paris garrison, the new title of Super
ior commander OF the national de.
tense.
LONDON, Dec. SO.-Ths Paris cor-
respondent of the Times atirms that
he has information from an undoubted
source that Russia and Germany
signed a direct alliance a fortnight ago.
"rhe Gar" adds the correspondent,
"was decided in taking this course by
the attitude manifested toward Russia
by Count Kalnoky, Austrian minister
OF foreign affairs, and by the expecta-
ton that NJ. Floquet would be made
prime minister of France. This shows"
concludes the correspondent "that the
reported alliance between Russia and
was but a chimera.'
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1887-01-08
WHY NOT QUARREL.
From the New York Herald.1

There is very considerable want of
harmony in the labor party just now.
Well, gentlemen, suppose you do dis.
agree, what of it? When everybody
thinks alike there. is hardly an incen-
tive to think at all. But when there is
a sharp difference of opinion and the
contestants get thoroughly reused, and
in their earnestness fling pretty large
epithets at each other, then the braini-
est man gravitates to the top and be-
comes a natural leader.
This is a country where a great deal
OF talking is done, and some of it is a
a little wild, but when it comes to or
ganized action then we are always
conservative. In the labor unions and
among the knights the quarrel that is
in progress will do no harm; on the
other hand it will do good. The venti-
lation of all the facts of the case and a
red hot argument about the policy to
be pursued, with a safe amount of crimi-
nation and recrimination, will help the
wage earners of the country to make
up their minds as to what is for their
best interest, and perhaps show them
the most practical method of attain
ing it.
We haven't the the slightest sympathy
with those of our contemporaries who
taunt the laborers because they don't
get on smoothly. Why, there is moth
ing that helps on a great cause so
much as a quarrel, Human nature
would lose its pith and stamina if men
were lot contradicted now and then.
1t is not necessary to come to blows,
but a good spirited controversy is the
steam that keeps up the speed of the
locomo tive.
And, by the way, gentlemen, the
democratic party is the real labor
party of this country. 1t is the
party. Of the people, of the masses.
That is what its very name implies. 1t
is your party, and its policy is your
policy. 1t was founded on the princi-
pie that ga mans a man for a. that"
and it stands for the equal rights of all
our citizens
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1887-01-08
WITTROOK, HAIGHT, WEAVER AND
COOK TO BE PROSECUTED.

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Jan. Fired. Wit
trock, Thomas Weaver and W. w.
Haigh ut, the latter of whom was brought
here from Louisville yesterday, were
photographed at the Four Courts to-
day. These are the only members of
the express robbery gang who will be
prosecuted in this city. ALI the others
who were arrested have been released,
with the exception of Oscar Cook, who
will answer to the court nKansasCity.
All OF the stolen money found in the
possession of Kinney, Mrs. Haight and
others has been recovered and as they
knew nothing of the robbery until
their arrest the express company con-
siders that nothing is to be gained by
prosecuting them.
AS to Fotheringham's guilt or limo.
cence, the detectives and officials of the
express company have little to say, but
it Is pretty generally believed tina
W!ttrock's contemplated official state
ment OF IhG robbery will remove al
suspicion that Fotheringham was il
any way voluntarily contested Will
the robbery.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1887-01-08
AN ADVOCATE OF TEMPERANCE,

Beyond question, the moat ardent,
unsparing, aggressive, interchangeable,
and practical enemy of intemperance
nCW before the public is Terence v.
Powderlv, General Master Workman
OF the Knights of Labor. \ great
strike scarcely ever occurs but Mr..
Powderly calls the strikers special at
tention &c the dangers which intenper-
ancc may raise up against its successful
settlement, and to the injury resulting
to wcrkingmen generally from the use
OF liquor. He is inclined to elevate the
liquor question above all others in the
labor world, and to hold that the
laborer's hitterest enemy and most de-
testable oppressor is rum We have no
hesitation In saying that Mr.. Powder
ly is more Justly entitled to head the
temperance party than any man who
has ever been politically identified
with it.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1887-01-08
POLITICALLY INTERESTING
from the N. Y. Herald

eno Ne IA
The republicans are very shrewd
folk. They watch the drift of public
opinion, and then trim their sails to
'catch the favoring gale" with the
skill of old political salts.
When Mr. Blaine was in Pennsylva-
MIA among the protectionists he was a
protectionist away up to the root of
his hair. He shook the dust of tariff
reform from his boots, and vehemently
declared that it was a hereto that
ought to be burned at the stake like
Savonarola.
But Mr.. Blaine's organ, the Tribune,
seeing that rather q different opinion
prevails in this section, unctuously as
serts that the tariff will bear some little
pruning, and then proceeds like a
good republican gardener to suggest
that certain branches, as tobacco and
sugar. be Topped off.
Now, then, "you pays your money
and takes your choice" If you favor
protection Mr.. Blaine Is with you heart
and soul, and if you favor tariff re-
form, why the Tribune pats you on
the back and says, "Me, tooY You
can have just what you want, but you
u shout for Blaine in order to get
it. He alone can save this country, in
spite of the fact that 1t has already
been saved by the democratic party.
"Scruples!" said old Grice, in the
play; "when people get to my age
they shouldn't have any scruples.
Scruplus, indeed! Scruples is like
feelin's! 'ates such rubbage!"